In preparation for a special issue on Science and Society in the United
States before 1860, guest edited by D. Graham Burnett of Princeton
University and Steven Conn of Ohio State University, the Journal of the
Early Republic is currently seeking strong papers that address American
science and technology from multiple angles and from a broad
disciplinary perspective. Topics that interest us include, but are not
limited to:

* Transatlantic circulations of natural knowledge;
Conflicts (and sympathies) between religion and science;
* Institutionalization and professionalization of an American scientific
community;
* Shifting boundaries drawn around emergent fields of knowledge, and
emergent communities of learned practitioners;
* Changing means by which scientific ideas were authorized, transmitted,
and contested;
* Connections between scientific practice and new modes of visual
culture and representation;
* Links between science, technology, and economic prosperity;
* The use of scientific ideas and practices (race, environment, etc.) in
the articulation and realization of various programs of domination and
liberation.

Papers should be submitted by September 1, 2007, to jer@shear.org, and
should not exceed 9,000 words including documentation. Please prepare
manuscripts according to the standard JER guidelines at
http://jer.pennpress.org/strands/jer/submissionInfo.htm. Prospective
authors are encouraged to contact the editors dburnett@princeton.edu and
conn.23@osu.edu with ideas or recommendations.